LETTER: Is the problem the passengers?

By The Newsroom
Published 1st Oct 2016, 10:00 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 23:36 BST

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Reading between the lines of Terry Milford's letter extolling '˜the lost benefits' of the nationalised railway system (23/9/16), now available to us under Brexit, it appears the tub-thumping objective is purely ideological and will make little difference... trains will still be cancelled, delayed and diverted by strikes, engineering works, inclement weather and poor management. Commuters will still whinge!

Curiously, Terry asks ‘who in their right mind (would) hand regional monopolies to various private companies to run the trains?’, forgetting that is precisely how our once great railways were established and run (including the infrastructure) by private enterprise for 100 years; they merged to form four major, independent regional companies.